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Something very curious just turned up in Project Gutenberg: Ending the Depression through Planned Obsolescence https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/72003 BY Bernard London Original publication: New York: self-published, 1932 The US economy did so well in WWII a lot of people were afraid that the...

How many posts can modernism have? Will there be post43modernism in the 26th century?

http://gutenberg.net.au/gonewiththewind.html Gone With the Wind is in the public domain in Australia.

Picky, picky! Aren't England and Ireland smaller than Texas?

Free in Project Gutenberg https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/21970

This just turned up in Project Gutenberg: Jane Austen and Her Works by Sarah Tytler https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/70809 As an avid science fiction reader even I heard of Jane Austen as I crawled through the literary muck for decades. I have only read a few pages so far and it hasn't gotten...

Stuff like this shows that I do not analyze literature as much as some people do. I started reading SF in 4th grade and read 100s of stories by 9th grade when I got my first English Literature course. The teacher starts talking about "first person" and "third person" and I'm like, "the who...

Postmodernist Fiction

SDS - Speculative Fiction I think the 'Speculative Fiction' term as used today is relatively useless and as it was explained by Robert Heinlein to be more significant. Maybe we should call it "H-Spec" since "Speculative Fiction" has been corrupted since the '70s.

There is now something called METAMODERNISM! Just what we need, another vague indefinable concept.

A SLAVE IS A SLAVE BY H. BEAM PIPER https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/20726 Novels could sure be short back then. Now we are cursed by word processing software. There are a significant number of SF books that center on this subject of slavery. It is also part of the plot to the Honor Harrington...

What if postmodernism is a dead end, and really just a neurotic offshoot of European psycho-intellectual evolution? Like PTSD resulting from the trauma of the First and Second World Wars that never should have happened.

Nah, gotta have a direct brain interface for that. YOU first!

Those academics at Dartmouth did us a great disservice in 1956 by calling it Artificial Intelligence instead of Simulated Intelligence. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop Memorizing and understanding symbols are two different things and a lot of human beings memorize things...

Here is something put into the science fiction category that doesn't do the usual sci-fi stuff. https://www.tor.com/2018/05/10/sailing-to-bygone-days-s-m-stirlings-island-in-the-sea-of-time/ I have read the series multiple times. I would say the writing is better than Asimov too. LOL

The writing must be exceptionally bad or exceptionally good for me to notice. The nitwit nuns never taught science in my grade school so when I accidentally stumbled across science fiction in 4th grade it altered my reality. When I got to high school for English literature and the instructor...

I did not accuse you of saying Asimov was stupid. I said someone told me that Asimov could not write. You do seem to think that the priorities YOU set are what everyone should care about. I said maybe he cared about writing another NEW story that HE found interesting much more than polishing...

Everybody has to decide what they want out of the time they spend reading. Someone told me, rather smugly, that Isaac Asimov could not write. His IQ was only 160. The thing is Asimov had to decide what was worth his time. If interesting ideas were more important to him than "stylish" writing...

I shall attempt to maintain my reputation for radical thinking by kicking the bucket. Wait, that sounds too fatalistic. I'll reduce that too pessimistic. The Screwing of the Average Man (1974) by David Hapgood I read that in 1976. It rather shocked me but motivated me to pull out my...

I am a science fiction snob. And proud of it. LOL It is not that science fiction is predictive but it is mind expanding about the future. The "Literary Intellectuals" select the "cultural science fiction" but in my opinion science fiction is not about what they regard as cultural. Try: Daemon...